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YANGON, Myanmar -Myanmar’s opposition party urged the U.S. to open talks with the country’s junta, a spokesman said Wednesday, the last day of an American diplomat’s visit amid signs of a shifting U.S. approach to the military rulers.
The U.S. is Myanmar’s strongest critic and applies political and economic sanctions against the junta for its poor [...]
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Mar 25th, 2009 No Comments »
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By DENIS D. GRAY
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BANGKOK -The United Nations has ruled the continued detention of Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi violates the country’s own laws as well as those of the international community, a legal document says.
Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has spent 13 of the last 19 years under house arrest, with [...]
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- reported by Ko Myo
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The European Union(EU) would like to be involved in observing Parliament elections, scheduled for the next year in Myanmar, the EU Special Envoy, Piero Fassino, for the Southeast Asian country said during a meeting with Thailand’s Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Panich Vikitsreth.
Pro-democracy activists and others have expressed skepticism about Myanmar’s declared intent to [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 21st, 2009 No Comments »
By Chris Patten
Chris Patten is a former EU Commissioner for External Relations, Chairman of the British Conservative Party, and was the last British Governor of Hong Kong. He is currently Chancellor of Oxford University and a member of the British House of Lords.
LONDON – I was in Jordan, that beautiful oasis of calm and moderation [...]
Posted in Documentary Photos on Mar 20th, 2009 No Comments »
- reported by Htun
Human rights activists in Japan launched signature campaign to collect signatures from people of Japan who want to show their desire to see political prisoners in Burma freed from jails.
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By Jeffrey D. Sachs
Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also a Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals.
NEW YORK – The global economic crisis will be with us for a generation, not just a year or two, because it is really a transition [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 20th, 2009 No Comments »
By Mehdi Khalaji
Mehdi Khalaji, who studied for 14 years in seminaries in Qom, Iran, is a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East policy.
WASHINGTON, DC – The decision of former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami not to seek the presidency again has revealed how muddled Iranian presidential politics now is. In trying [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 20th, 2009 No Comments »
By Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch
Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch is the director of the Open Society Institute’s Global Drug Policy Program. She co-authored Poland’s first National AIDS program.
VIENNA – Negotiations at the United Nations High Level Summit on drugs in Vienna last week fell flat. Although 25 countries officially stated their support for proven methods such as [...]
Posted in Burma News on Mar 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Rights groups say the authorities have imprisoned scores of people in recent months, including monks
Myanmar’s military government has sentenced a lawyer to four years in prison after accusing him of having links to “illegal organisations”.
According to opposition and legal sources in the country, Pho Phyu defended pro-democracy and labour activists.
He was arrested in January in [...]
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Mar 20th, 2009 No Comments »
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